Category: Landing Page Optimization
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Talkin’ 2011 Publisher Revenue Blues
"Well, I finally started thinkin' straightWhen I run outta things to investigate." -Bob Dylan It’s been a while since I’ve posted here at Optimize and Prophesize and even longer since I posted regularly. As has been the tradition here in all but my first year blogging in 2006, I provide a yearly recap of my…
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Search’s Long Tail Rising
“When they kick out your front door, how you gonna come? With your hands on your head, or on the trigger of your gun?” Last week Google confirmed changes to their natural Search algorithm. In short, by giving more weight to site authority in the algo, long tail Search traffic should begin to rise for…
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Bounce Rates & Publisher Monetization from Search
Bounce rate from natural search is a problem that has plagued publishers for a long time. It’s one of the problems we’re working on solving at Yieldbot. Many pubs spend a great amount of time and effort working on SEO to increase site visitors. The fruit of this labor is increased traffic to pages relevant…
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Links vs. Cookies: A Tale of Two Web Economies
I credit Jonathan Strauss of link analytics company awe.sm with coining the phrase “the link as the cookie.” I’ve been borrowing that expression for the past year because it not only describes his service and the meta concept of linked data, but it also encapsulated what intelligent landing page optimizers had been doing for some time…
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Digital Spaces That Excite Me for 2010
Last year I was very fortunate to meet some incredible people involved in shaping the future of digital media. I enjoyed learning about what interests them, hearing their points of view and discovering what problems they were working on solving. Needless to say, digital media evolves at an astounding velocity so I thought this was…